Dalits and the making of modern India / Chinnaiah Jangam.

By:

Jangam, Chinnaiah [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 247 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199477777 (hbk.)
0199477779 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

305.56880954 JAN 23 009564

Summary: "The story of anti-colonial nationalism in India as told in mainstream literary and historical writings presents privileged caste Hindus as heroes and founders. Dalits have mostly been viewed as passive subjects. This book inverts the dominant nationalist narrative and brings to the fore the unacknowledged contributions of Dalits towards the collective imagination of [the] nation of India. By using colonial

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	305.56880954 JAN 009564 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		009564

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.

"The story of anti-colonial nationalism in India as told in mainstream literary and historical writings presents privileged caste Hindus as heroes and founders. Dalits have mostly been viewed as passive subjects. This book inverts the dominant nationalist narrative and brings to the fore the unacknowledged contributions of Dalits towards the collective imagination of [the] nation of India. By using colonial

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